Scripture Verse

O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good: for His mercy endureth for ever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy. Psalm 107:1–2

Introduction

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William Croft (1678–1727)

Words: Charles Wes­ley (1707–1788). Pub­lished in The Po­et­ic­al Works of John and Charles Wes­ley, by George Os­born (Lon­don: Wes­ley­an-Me­tho­dist Con­fer­ence Of­fice, 1870), vol­ume 9, num­ber 933.

Music: Ha­no­ver, at­trib­ut­ed to Will­iam Croft, in The Sup­ple­ment to the New Ver­sion of Psalms, by Na­hum Tate & Ni­cho­las Bra­dy, 6th edi­tion, 1708 (🔊 pdf nwc).

Alternate Tune:

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Charles Wesley (1707–1788)

Lyrics

The peo­ple of God,
Jehovah we praise
As bought by His blood,
And saved by His grace;
Who dai­ly de­liv­ers
And ran­soms His own,
And wa­ters with ri­vers
Of life from His throne.

Redeemed from the foe,
We Je­sus pro­claim,
And tri­umph to know
The pow­er of His name.
Preserved from all ev­il,
Through God the most high,
The world, and the dev­il,
And sin we de­fy.

Much more than our sin
His grace doth abound;
His king­dom with­in
Our bo­som is found:
His blood’s ap­pli­ca­tion
The bless­ing im­parts,
The in­ward sal­va­tion,
And hal­lows our hearts.

Triumphing we go,
To tri­umph again,
Till death, the last foe,
By Je­sus is slain;
His death shall re­lease us,
Called out of our graves,
To wit­ness that Je­sus
Eternally saves.